Anthi Andronikou is Lecturer in History of Art (1350-1700). Before joining the School of Culture & Creative Arts, she was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews and Mary Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton. Prior to that, she acted as curator of the Pittas Collection, which is based in London and Limassol. Anthi is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews.

 Anthi has a BA (Art and Archaeology) and an MPhil (Byzantine Art) from Athens, as well as an MLitt (Renaissance and Late Medieval Italian Art) from St Andrews, where she also completed her PhD in 2015. She has been an awardee of the British School at Rome and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard, and participated in the early-career research programme “Art of the Crusades: A Re-Evaluation” led by the SOAS Institute and the Getty Foundation. She is the author of Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Her research has appeared, among others, in the Art Bulletin, Artibus et Historiae, Journal of Medieval History, and Frankokratia. Anthi enjoys travelling and hiking and hopes one day she will plant her own orchard in a remote village in Cyprus.

Anthi specializes in early modern and late medieval art from a global, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on the artistic contacts between Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. She has also an evolving fascination for Islamic art and early modern ecologies. Her research interests include Italian art (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries), Byzantine and post-Byzantine art, Crusader art and material culture in the Holy Land, Bolognese manuscripts, transcultural approaches to Christian and Islamic visual cultures, and cultural theory. She also investigates early modern and late medieval Venetian art and its reverberations in the visual language of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus. Her award-winning monograph Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores crosscurrents in the visual culture of Italy and Cyprus between 1200 and 1400. Beyond early modern and medieval art, Anthi has written on modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. Her co-edited volume with Emeritus Professor Peter Humfrey, The Pittas Collection: Mythological Paintings and Sculptures, was published by Mandragora (Florence 2019).

 Anthi currently works on her second monograph, The Medieval Art of Translation: Visual Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean, c.1200-1300, which brings together a range of artistic media (painting, minor arts and sculpture) to probe transcultural and transconfessional visual idioms in what are nowadays Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, southern Italy, southern Turkey and Syria, by drawing on theories of cultural translation. In this project she looks at the artistic dialogues between Eastern Christian and Islamic visual cultures, and is particularly interested in the usage and reception of Arabic script in southern Italy. 

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Anthi currently teaches the undergraduate course “Early Modern Ecologies, 1300-1600” and lectures on a range of topics, such as classical antiquity in Byzantine and Early Modern Italian cultures, the reception of Islamic script in early modern art, and the artistic transformation of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco).

 She would be happy to supervise prospective PhD candidates who would like to work on topics related to her research interests.